California at Auburn by the numbers: Tigers do nothing but win on Sept. 7

California (1-0) at Auburn (1-0)

2:30 p.m. CDT Saturday (ESPN2)

Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn

1 Previous game between Auburn and California. The Tigers beat the Golden Bears 14-10 on Sept. 9, 2023.

3 Interceptions for California in its season-opening 31-13 victory over UC Davis last week. Cal was the only team in the nation with three interceptions in Week 1.

3 True freshmen caught TD passes in Auburn’s season-opening 73-3 victory over Alabama A&M last week. Malcolm Simmons had three receptions for 91 yards, including a 57-yard TD; Perry Thompson had two receptions for 82 yards, including a 70-yard TD; and Cam Coleman had two receptions for 66 yards, including a 44-yard TD. Five Auburn players had at least one TD reception in the opener. Last season, seven Tigers had TD receptions.

5 Victories without a loss for Auburn on Sept. 7. All the games were played in Auburn, and the Tigers outscored their opponents – Southwestern Louisiana, Fresno State, Western Carolina, Arkansas State and Tulane – by a combined score of 229-22.

5 Games for California in the Eastern or Central time zones this season after the Golden Bears played in five such games in the previous five seasons combined. California is playing its first season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2024.

6 300-yard passing games for Auburn QB Payton Thorne, although only one has come with the Tigers. In last week’s 73-3 victory over Alabama A&M, Thorne completed 13-of-21 passes for 322 yards with four TDs and no interceptions. Thorne’s other five 300-yard passing games came while he played for Michigan State.

6 Victories and 11 losses for California against SEC opponents. Saturday’s game will be the Golden Bears’ 10th on an SEC member’s home field. Cal has played at Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Ole Miss and Tennessee and has a 2-7 record in those games.

7 Years since Auburn’s previous game against an opponent from the Atlantic Coast Conference, which California joined for the 2024 season. The Tigers lost at Clemson 14-6 on Sept. 9, 2017, in its most recent game against an ACC member. Auburn’s most recent victory against an ACC member came on Sept. 5, 2015, when the Tigers downed Louisville 31-24 in Atlanta. Auburn has a 34-12 record against ACC opponents, with a 19-5 home mark.

22 Consecutive games with at least one reception for Auburn WR Robert Lewis. All but the most recent of those games came with Lewis playing for Georgia State. He had 70 receptions for 877 yards and seven touchdowns for the Panthers in 2023. Lewis had an 8-yard reception in Auburn’s season-opening 73-3 victory over Alabama A&M on Saturday.

77 Rushing yards are needed by Auburn RB Jarquez Hunter to become the 15th Auburn player with 2,300. Hunter ran for 53 yards on 11 carries in Auburn’s 14-10 victory over California last season. He also ran for 53 yards and a touchdown in the Tigers’ season-opening game last week against Alabama A&M, although he needed only four carries to reach that total in Auburn’s 73-3 victory.

143 Games have been played by Auburn since it was most recently shut out, the second-longest streak in school history. Auburn’s most recent shutout loss came 49-0 to Alabama on Nov. 17, 2012. Auburn’s record scoring streak lasted 149 games, starting with a 55-16 victory over Richmond on Oct. 4, 1980, and ending with a 17-0 loss to Alabama on Nov. 26, 1992. Auburn’s current scoring streak is the 10th-longest in SEC history, and its record streak is the ninth-longest.

450 Auburn games at Jordan-Hare Stadium when the Tigers take the field on Saturday. Auburn and Florida tied 7-7 in Game 1 on Nov. 30, 1939, and the Tigers have a 347-95-7 record in Jordan-Hare Stadium.

1,325 Rushing yards for California RB Jaydn Ott in 2023, the most in the Pac-12. In the Golden Bears’ 14-10 loss to Auburn last season, Ott had 78 yards and one touchdown on 20 carries before leaving the game with an injury in the third quarter.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.